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In my last column I promised I’d name the guilty names: all those morally bankrupt, intellectually tainted, mendacious, ignorant useful idiot shills who for the last several years have assumed the mantle of scientific expertise and loftily declared that the “Pause”

The #Heathrow13 – climate activists convicted of trespassing on and disrupting Britain’s busiest airport – have been told by the judge that they face jail sentences. Oh how the heart bleeds! According to a small group of green protesters who have

Were you moved recently by the tragic tale of 150,000 penguins killed by global warming? Of course you were. The story was almost inescapable – we even ran a wires version of it here at Breitbart – because it was

Finally the mystery of Leonardo DiCaprio’s bizarre infatuation with the wilder reaches of environmental lunacy has been revealed. 1. His head was completely messed up by a freaky Hieronymus Bosch painting his parents hung above his crib when he was a baby. 2. He is quite exceptionally stupid — more stupid than even his most ardent detractors can hitherto possibly have imagined. Here are some of the key take home points about DiCaprio which have emerged from a fawning and no-doubt world-exclusive interview with Rolling Stone.

Frustrated that nobody seems to care about climate change, “the country’s biggest individual political donor during the 2014 election cycle,” has pledged even more in 2016. Tom Steyer spent nearly $75 million in the 2014 midterms, reports Politico. He intends to “open his wallet even wider” now.

Early voting in the Texas primary election begins on Tuesday, February 16. Presidential, Congressional, Texas statewide, and local races are on the ballot along with some propositions.

How much will the doubling of CO2 in the air warm the global temperature? How do scientists take an accurate measurement of the temperature of the Earth’s atmosphere? Why can scientists better measure atmospheric temperatures from satellites than surface temperatures from ground thermometers?

More than a century from now, on current trends, today’s concentration of CO2 in the air will have doubled. How much warming will that cause? The official prediction, 1.5-4.5 Celsius degrees per CO2 doubling, is proving a substantial exaggeration.

President Barack Obama called for a $10 tax on every barrel of crude oil. The response from Texans and their friends, not unsurprisingly, has been swift and impassioned. The President has proposed an oil tax he says, to help fund new

During a campaign rally in Keene, New Hampshire, “Democratic Socialist” presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) referred to a 2012 tweet sent out by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump where the billionaire jokingly said the Chinese created climate change for their own benefit.

As precincts indicated a virtual tie with Hillary Clinton in the Iowa Caucus, Sen. Bernie Sanders, a socialist who represents the state of Vermont, championed hard-left ideals during his midnight address to supporters.

Leonardo DiCaprio got a “terrifying” up-close look at the effects of climate change while shooting his Oscar-tipped film The Revenant last year, he told reporters backstage at the Screen Actors Guild Awards on Saturday night.

On Thursday, Pope Francis met with Titanic star Leonardo DiCaprio in the Vatican, where the two reportedly discussed the care of the environment, among other things.

The makers of the world’s most embarrassing ever pop albums now have some serious competition. A Canadian rapper called Baba Brinkman is crowdfunding a “scientifically peer-reviewed” record on climate change with which he hopes to defeat sceptics through the medium

United States Secretary of Energy Ernie Moniz addressed a sold-out crowd on Tuesday night at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco–describing, among other things, the prospect that Sarah Palin might take his job.

Britain is heading for a major energy crisis within ten years, says a report published today by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. The loss of coal by 2025, along with growth in demand and the closure of the majority of our

The US East Coast has been blanketed in global warming. Layers and layers and layers of it. But don’t worry: it’s not actually real. We know this because of the climate experts and their computer models. (H/T Tom Nelson) Here

Leonardo DiCaprio has flown by private jet to the World Economic Forum’s annual conference for sinister plutocrats and craven politicians in Davos, Switzerland, to attack the “greed” of the energy industry. “We simply cannot afford to allow the corporate greed

Tom Steyer is what left-wing activists love to pretend Republican mega-donors are: a special interest with very deep pockets who demands absolute fealty to his agenda in exchange for cash. Of course, since his cause is ostensibly environmentalism, they don’t mind, and the media never mentions him when it launches its periodic tirades against the unhealthy influence of special interests, other than itself.

Because the COP21 talks in Paris were a flop climate activists should take the law into their own hands and try direct action instead. So recommends Tara Smith, a lecturer in law at the University of Bangor, Wales, in an

Today, I’ll be ruining your childhood with a deconstruction of Bill Nye.

Some rare good news from the eco wars: it looks increasingly likely that a lunatic green project to build a £1 billion tidal lagoon across Swansea Bay in South Wales is going to be scrapped. Or so reckons Christopher Booker

A senior scientist at NASA has announced in the New York Times that he has terminal cancer. This is sad. What’s sadder, though, is that he has chosen to exploit his personal tragedy for the purposes of promoting climate change

Thursday in Baton Rouge, LA. at a town hall, President Barack Obama said if climate change is not addressed, a cure for cancer would be meaningless. Obama said, “But don’t think that this is not a problem for all of us. This

President Obama’s final State of the Union address was full of nonsense, especially on the matter closest to his heart — energy and the environment.

President Obama went after climate change skeptics on Tuesday during his last State of the Union address.

Global food prices are down for the fourth year running. International food prices dipped by 19 per cent in the last year, the fourth consecutive annual fall, due to substantial decline in dairy, sugar and veg oil prices according to

Ricky Gervais stole the show as host of the 73rd annual Golden Globe Awards Sunday night, mixing his signature brand of politically incorrect humor with some sharp barbs aimed at Hollywood’s best and brightest.

Leonardo DiCaprio told Charlie Rose in an interview Thursday that climate change is “the biggest problem that mankind has ever had to face,” ahead of the international refugee crises being fueled by the deadly rise of the Islamic State.

A group of San Francisco goats regularly rented out for clearing brush are being used to eat old Christmas trees. Now, company that owns the goats is pursuing nonprofit status to push forward a climate change agenda.

Let’s start the New Year as we mean to go on: by dancing joyfully and triumphantly on the grave of man-made global warming. Climate change is over. It’s a busted flush. The alarmists now have all the credibility of bewildered Harold Camping

Joseph Romm, author of the book “Climate Change: What You Need to Know,” appeared on MSNBC Saturday to discuss weather in America. According to Romm, the phrases “hottest ever,” “driest ever,” “wettest ever” or “most extreme,” show the effects of climate

The Daily Beast’s Eleanor Clift argued the Republican “war on science” was 2015’s most under-reported story on Friday’s “McLaughlin Group.” Clift said, “I guess I would give it [the award for Most Under-Reported Story] to the Republican ongoing war against

CNN Correspondent Tom Foreman declared that 2015 presented “the best argument yet for addressing global climate change” during CNN’s “All the Best, All the Worst 2015” special. Foreman said, during a segment on severe weather in 2016, “By November, 2015

The Associated Press struggles mightily to avoid admitting that the Paris “climate conference” was a very expensive dystopian fantasy, in which world leaders soaked their taxpayers and also spewed vast amounts of carbon into the atmosphere with their luxury jets, just to hold the world’s largest “Mad Max” live-action role-playing game

In a new study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, scientists from the University of California, Davis and the Harvard University Center for the Environment suggest that violent crime is precipitated by air pollution.